@danielleturney1.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof of Social Work at QUB. Still interested in exploring theory to inform & support social work practice. Relational ethics; critical thinking/decision making; family support. Also plants & politics
“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.
Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?
With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet a) not to join the Iranian war b) to delay access to bases looks wiser and wiser. Trump’s press conference last night shows he has no real idea what the objectives are and its duration is arbitrary.
How?? But answer came there none
“The world respects us right now more than they have ever respected us,” Trump says (as reported in today's Guardian). Ok, who's going to tell him?
Good.
Trump bombs.
The Telegraph screams humiliation.
The Mail screams betrayal.
GB News screams weakness.
And all of a sudden a complex global crisis becomes yet another loyalty test to American power.
The UK deserves better than this performative war hysteria.
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The British right’s messianic zeal for a war that is illegal, has no clear goals, and has nothing much to do with the UK (beyond defence) is not the biggest story right now, but it is one of the most baffling
"it is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place"
Thee's a paper to be written on the therapeutic impacts of making and consuming soup! :)
A horrible and stupid thing to insist on saying
NEW BLOGPOST: Keir Starmer and David Lammy are taking an extraordinarily dangerous gamble with our individual liberty
For any MP unsure of how to vote on the government’s proposals to restrict trial by jury.
Sen. Warner: "This was a war of choice. There was no imminent threat to the United States. There was not even an imminent threat to Israel."
Simon Tisdall, the independent-minded journalist who was pivotal in ensuring the Guardian opposed the Iraq war of 2003, is sounding a loud alarm today…
… en route to this arresting conclusion www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"It is [...] hard to avoid the conclusion that the Trump administration has embarked on this operation without a plan, and is making it up as it goes along, as if they killed enough of the right people and destroyed enough Iranian assets everything would fall into place."
Magical thinking.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
A radical thought!! But really quite compelling ...
This thread by @helenbelcherobe.bsky.social, in response to a post by @paulbernal.bsky.social, is worth a read for just some of the context behind how regressive, and frankly hostile, Labour is on trans rights.
Indeed - job done. And if he believes that then, at one level, it doesn't really matter whether it's true of not!
There's vile, and then there's completely off the scale vile
MSM is continually shocked and surprised by the next stupid/dangerous thing Trump says or does.
FACT: He is not fit to serve. Mentally, physically, morally, etc.
This R Congress allows him to continue this madness. If they had a red line (they clearly don’t) he would’ve been removed months ago
Evidence suggests they fully understand the ‘con’ bit - and ‘sequence’ seems to mean moving on to create the next arena of chaos …
You have to hope that the article is better than the headlining and pic ... :(
This is pretty disgraceful.
There will be Starmer supporters screaming "but Rwanda policy"* until the heat death of universe as they attempt to defend/deflect how on every practical measure Labour has just announced anti-asylum policies which go further than the previous government.
*Not to diminish cruelty of that policy
🚨Inhumane, definitely
🚨Illegal, quite possibly
🚨Ignorant, absolutely
🚨Counterproductive, unarguably
🚨Inconsistent with Labour's claims to be "progress, most certainly
🚨Costly, without a doubt
🚨Risking lives, one hundred percent
That should answer it.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
I think this goes well beyond cringe into wholly new territory of awfulness! But also, why do they think Dubai needs them? And in their dressing up clothes?
If GB News is loss-making but there are people still willing to keep it broadcasting, ask yourself why. Is it because it is successful in skewing British politics rightwards, either through the broadcasts, the website, or sharing clips on social media? And that is more important than profit?
“Centre for a Better Britain is putting together a frightening blueprint for a Reform government. People say it couldn’t happen here, but when someone tells you who they are and what they want to do, believe it the first time.”
https://goodlaw.social/0431